Grammar puzzles, part one, sentence 12
"I saw a man on a hill with a telescope" is ambiguous: the telescope could be yours or the man's.
Who acts: pasts, telescope · What happens: see, be · To what, where: man, hill, yours · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Grammar puzzles, part one» of the language course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pasts, telescope), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 saw | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 saw | nsubj |
| 3 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 man | det |
| 5 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 saw | obj |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 hill | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 hill | det |
| 8 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 saw | obl |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 telescope | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 telescope | det |
| 11 | telescope | telescope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 hill | nmod |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 telescope | punct |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 ambiguous | cop |
| 14 | ambiguous | ambiguous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 saw | parataxis |
| 15 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 20 yours | punct |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 telescope | det |
| 17 | telescope | telescope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 yours | nsubj |
| 18 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 yours | aux |
| 19 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 yours | cop |
| 20 | yours | your | PRON | Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 ambiguous | parataxis |
| 21 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 23 man | cc |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 man | det |
| 23 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 yours | conj |
| 24 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 23 man | case |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 ambiguous | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see in a quote | past | the pasts = past | a man | a hill with a telescope | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is | present | ambiguous property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | is a | could | the telescope | yours | tree rules |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, mova-school-agreed-en.conllu) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence school:language:011-grammar-puzzles-part-one.lesson:12.
The tree: Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1. The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.
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